MARIE ROZE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3918, 9 February 1884, Page 4

MARIE ROZE.

Madame Roze, while a great artist, is also a charming, unaffected woman. Marie Roze is already famous in two Continents. While yet a girl all musical Paris was at her feet. She was petted by Rossini and Meyerbeer, Auber wrote new operas on her behalf, and the most celebrated critics of the day competed with oncanothor in chanting her praises. Sho remained in the French capital during tho siege of '70, and through all the troubled days of the Commune, and her acts of courage and charity —she was the member of an ambulance corps while Paris was beleaguered by the Germans—made her still more popular with her countrymen aad countrywomen. Iv '71 Marie Rozo opened tho Opera House in Brussels, and in May of tho following year she made her debut in London, appearing at Drury Lane as Marguerite in "Faust." Tho next five years were mainly passed between Londou and Paris, but in '77, having accepted an engagement from Max Strakofich, she took her departure for New York. Her reception among our cousins on "tho other side" was characteristically enthusiastic. When writing of her first appearance iv the States tho New York Herald said that "her voice is sweet and pure, of the rich timbre that appeals to the feelings, and the tones are delioiously fluto-like and satisfying". Sho resorts to no tricks of vocalism, affects no melodramatic attitude, never exaggerates her dramatic force." And this was only ono of scores of similar criticisms. Nay, not content with prose, numbers of her admirers rushed into poetry, employing rhyme wherewith to sing her praises. Ono of the copies of jverscs addressed to her oaino from Longfellow, and had the following, among its other stanzas: — ". . .we, enchanted by thy grace, And lost in worshipping The magic of thy form aud face, Forget to hear thee sing. Or, if wo listen to the strain That, like a bubbling brook, O'crilows thy lips iv music, then Wo all forget to look !" Tho years of '77 and '73 were passed by Madame Roze in America, as was also a portion of '80, but sho spent '79 in London, and sho had also remained in this country since tho beginning of 'SI. Of late ber appearances have boon chiefly mado in oratorio ; among the othor works in tho performance of which sho has taken a leading part having beon "Judas Macabteus," "Elijah," and tha "Messiah." Madame Mario Roze —sho was married in '77 to Mr Henry Mapleson, eldest son of Mr Mapleson of her Majesty's opera—is at present at the Royalty Theatre, whore she is appearing as the prima donna of the company under the direction of Mr Carl Rosa.—The Bailie.